L'Algérie de Gustave Guillaumet
Subtitle: (1840-1887)
By: commissariat général, Annick Notter, Anne Liénard, Bruno Gaudichon ; commissariat scientifique, Marie Gautheron
Contributors: Notter, Annick, editor; Liénard, Anne, editor; Gaudichon, Bruno, editor; Gautheron, Marie, editor; Musée des beaux-arts de La Rochelle; Musée des beaux-arts (Limoges, France); Musée d'art et d'industrie de Roubaix
Publisher: Gourcuff Gradenigo
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Montreuil
Language: fre
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9782353402816
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Exhibitions; French Painting; Orientalism in art; In art
Work titles: Paintings
Description: L'ouvrage a été réalisé à l'occasion de l'exposition du même nom présentée en divers endroits dont au musée des Beaux-Arts de La Rochelle, du 8 juin au 17 septembre 2018; Gustave Guillaumet est l'une des figures marquantes de l'orientalisme français. Pourtant, bien que très présente dans de nombreux musées, en particulier au musée d'Orsay, et dans les principales expositions consacrées à la peinture orientaliste des dernières décennies, son oeuvre reste peu connu, et sa fortune critique relative. Cet ouvrage étudie particulièrement le versant algérien de l'orientalisme français, dans une perspective à la fois esthétique, historienne et culturelle. Il éclaire un moment privilégié d'une histoire partagée et nous invite à réévaluer une oeuvre essentielle. Guillaumet est l'un des premiers artistes à avoir visité de façon intensive l'Algérie, d'Oran à la Kabylie, des Hauts-Plateaux aux oasis et au Sahara. Son oeuvre, qualifiée parfois d'ethnographique, est aussi exigeante et poétique, sensible et grave.

Gustave Guillaumet (1840-1887) is one of the outstanding figures of French Orientalism. Yet, although very present in many museums, especially the Musée d'Orsay, and in the main exhibitions devoted to orientalist painting of recent decades, his work remains little known, and his relative critical fortune. This book focuses on the Algerian side of French Orientalism, from an aesthetic, historical and cultural perspective. It illuminates a privileged moment of a shared history and invites us to reevaluate an essential work. Guillaumet is one of the first artists to have intensively visited Algeria, from Oran to Kabylie, from the Highlands to the oases and the Sahara. His work, sometimes described as ethnographic, is also demanding and poetic, sensitive and serious. His painting, the fruit of a complex itinerary, is influenced by the Masters of the Northern Schools, imprint of modernity and carrier of his research in various directions: naturalism, impressionism, intimism, idealism. Painter with republican sensibility, he is also a privileged observer of colonial domination. Recognized early in the show, hailed by the critics, are success is not denied. At his untimely death, at the age of 47, his work is unanimously praised for being even superior to that of his eminent predecessor, Fromentin.--Editions Gradenigo.
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the musée des Beaux-Arts de La Rochelle, La Rochelle, France, June 8-September 17, 2018, at the musée des Beaux-Arts de Limoges, Limoges, France, October 19, 2018-February 4, 2019 and at La Piscine-musée d'Art et d'industrie André Diligent de Roubaix, Roubaix, France, March 8-June 2, 2019.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-237).